Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of WIAReport.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball by Jennifer Ring (University of Nebraska Press)	Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550-1700 edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher (Manchester University Press)	Banking on Equality: Women, Work and Employment in the Banking Sector in India by Supriti Bezbaruah (Routledge)
Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture by Natalia Mehlman Petrel (Oxford University Press)	Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities edited by Sandra L. Stacki and Supra Bailey (Routledge)	Figure Skating in the Formative Years: Singles, Pairs, and the Expanding Role of Women by James R. Hines (University of Illinois Press)
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer (Nan A. Talese)	Laura Cornelius Kellogg: Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works edited by Kristina Ackley and Cristina Stanciu (Syracuse University Press)	Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power by Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds (Gower Publishing)
Maternal Activism: Mothers Confronting Injustice by Danielle Poe (State University of New York Press)	Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 by Cristina Devereaux Ramirez (University of Arizona Press)	Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918-1945 by Mary Honeyball (Urbane Publications)
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm (Nan A. Talese)	The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period edited by Devoney Looser (Cambridge University Press)	The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism: Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound by Niamh Moore (University of Washington Press)
The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France by Jonathan Driskell (I.B. Tauris)	The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism: Identity and Sisterhood Between the World Wars by Marie Sandell (I.B. Tauris)	Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (University of Georgia Press)
Why Women Need Quotas by Vicky Pryce (Biteback)	Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s U.S. Culture by Steven Dillon (State University of New York Press)	Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity by Kate Wilkinson (Cambridge University Press)
Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 by Anna Despotopoulou (Edinburgh University Press)	Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Overcoming the Barriers edited by Elizabeth C. Reilly et al. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries by Magdolna Hargittai (Oxford University Press)